Bandwidth-Proportioned Datacenters

A system comprising:

• at least one storage node having one or more network interface components and one or more storage units configured to store data, each network interface component and each storage unit having an associated bandwidth, the collective bandwidth of the network interface components and the collective bandwidth of the storage units being proportioned to one another to enable communication to and from other nodes at the collective bandwidth of the storage units;
• at least one computation node having a processor, logic configured to read or write data to the at least one storage node, and one or more network interface components, each network interface component having an associated bandwidth;
• and
• one or more switches connecting the at least one storage node to the at least one computation node such that a collective bandwidth available between the at least one computation node and the at least one storage node is greater than or equal to a smaller of either the collective bandwidth of the storage units on the at least one storage node or a collective bandwidth of the network interface components of the at least one computation node.